“One of the Trump campaign’s latest Facebook ads … depicted an American flag and … a scene of … a tranquil field …. The voiceover of the ad says, ‘In a face of a trial unlike any other, America is doing what we always do,’ as the clip continues into the scene of the field …. It goes on to say, ‘We are rising to the occasion. Thanks to the bold actions of President Trump, we are on the verge of producing a Covid-19 vaccine faster than anyone thought possible.’ As the ad says, ‘Together we will beat this virus,’ a woman who appears to be a doctor pops up on screen.”
CNBC did a little digging into the origins of that ad and here’s what they found:
“The clip of that field is, in fact, from Slovenia … [and] the woman posing as a doctor in the clip was ‘an actress, filmed in Russia in a studio.’”
Read story here.
(Cross-posted from HorsesAss.org)